Göttingen, University of

Göttingen, University of
German Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen

Eminent European university, founded in 1737 in Göttingen, Germany.

It was one of the first and most influential secular universities. In the late 18th century it was the centre of the Göttinger Hain, a circle of poets who were forerunners of German Romanticism. In the late 19th century its Mathematical Institute, headed at various times by Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, and David Hilbert, attracted students from all over the world. In the 20th century its physics faculty included Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, and Max von Laue.

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university, Göttingen, Germany
German  in full Georg-august-universität Zu Göttingen,  

      one of the most famous universities in Europe, founded in Göttingen, Germany, in 1737 by George II of England in his capacity as Elector of Hanover. In the late 18th century it was the centre of the Göttinger Hain (q.v.), a circle of poets who were forerunners of German Romanticism. Its reputation suffered in 1837 when seven professors, the Göttinger Sieben (“Göttingen Seven”), were expelled for political protest, but by the late 19th century its Mathematical Institute, headed at various times by Carl Friedrich Gauss, P.G.L. Dirichlet, Bernhard Riemann, and David Hilbert, was attracting students from all over the world. In the 20th century its faculty of physics included the Nobel Prize winners Max Born, James Franck, Werner Heisenberg, and Max von Laue, who were responsible for some of the most important discoveries and developments in modern physics.

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